For use in a very active NAS this drive has good speed and reliabilityFor use in a very active NAS this drive has good speed and reliabilityFor use in a very active NAS this drive has good speed and reliability

WD's exclusive NASware technology, built into every WD Red hard drive, improves NAS storage performance by reducing common hard drive concerns in NAS systems including concerns for things like compatibility, integration, upgradeability, reliability and cost of ownership that are experienced with a hard drive designed for desktop computers.

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Rated 4 out of 5 by TeddyS from WORK HORSE NAS DRIVEI put these drives through the ringer for weekly client migrations.They perform and hold their own time and time again.

Date published: 2017-09-07

Rated 5 out of 5 by aaronhowe2 from Overall a good experience with these drives. Have a few on our office server, as well as use more of them at home for my NAS/media server. I have 4 of them in a ZFS data pool at home, and they supply great speeds for the price and RPM they run at.

Date published: 2016-08-03

Rated 5 out of 5 by SeanT29 from It spins it stores dataBased on Backblases stats this is one of the more reliable 3Tb drives out there. Not the fastest but the more reliable. For a home or SMB NAS array this is perfect.

Date published: 2016-01-27

Rated 4 out of 5 by CSSTCB from Very Reliable Hard DrivesFor use in a very active NAS this drive has good speed and reliability

Date published: 2015-09-16

Rated 5 out of 5 by jgdaqs from In a NAS, with a mirrored RAID array. Read/Write speed is at least 80/80 mbps. No noise from the drives makes for a great product.

Date published: 2015-09-01

Rated 5 out of 5 by NASMonkey47 from great hard drive for NASI've been using the drives exclusively for all my NAS applications over the last couple of years and have yet to have any problems at all. Of course, they are just hard drives and some will no doubt fail eventually, but so far I haven't had a spot of trouble with them.This is FAR more than I could say about the Seagate HD's that came with Iomega NAS units, but that's another story for another product.

Date published: 2015-06-03

Rated 5 out of 5 by ChuckR from Excellent valueI had a drive failure in a Netgear ReadyNAS unit that had 4 2-GB drives. For the price, I decided to replace all 4 drives with these 3-GB units and keep the good 2-GB drives as backups for the two other ReadyNAS units I have. Obviously I had to copy all the data off the old drives and copy back onto the new ones after initialization but it was well worth the effort.

Date published: 2015-06-03

Rated 5 out of 5 by bdeconti from Great for NAS or backupPlug and Play designed for NAS or Backup system. Thanks!